Sauna Dekor designs, engineers and installs the rooms that hyperbaric chambers sit in — for longevity clinics, recovery centres, hotel wellness floors and private villas in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. We do not manufacture chambers. We take the chamber you or your clinical partner have selected and build the suite around it: structural check, oxygen plant location, ventilation, acoustic and thermal isolation, electrical supply, access route and the finishes that make the room read as a treatment suite rather than a plant room. We have engineered wet and technical wellness rooms in our own facility since 1987 and have delivered projects in more than 35 countries.
What we take responsibility for
- Room survey and structural check — a hard-shell chamber is a point load, and it has to be carried, not assumed.
- Access route planning, from the loading bay to the door opening, before the chamber is ordered.
- Oxygen plant location and separation — concentrator or supply, in a ventilated, fire-rated space away from the treatment room.
- Ventilation and climate control sized for the room and its occupancy, not borrowed from the corridor.
- Electrical supply, isolation and emergency stop, coordinated with the chamber manufacturer’s data.
- Acoustic isolation — compressors and concentrators are audible, and a wellness suite cannot be.
- Finishes, lighting and joinery so the suite matches the rest of the facility.
- Coordination with the chamber supplier’s commissioning team and handover documentation.
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What Sets Wellness mHBOT Therapy Apart?
The chamber most often specified for a wellness suite is a mild hyperbaric unit — a non-medical, plug-and-play device operating at roughly 0.3 to 0.5 bar above atmospheric pressure, which is 1.3 to 1.5 ATA. A unit at that rating is compact enough to sit inside a finished wellness room rather than a dedicated plant-served suite, which is why it is the usual choice for villas and small facilities. Medical-grade equipment at 2.0 to 3.0 ATA is a different proposition: a different room, different oxygen handling, different permits and clinical oversight.
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Understanding the Technology Behind Wellness Chamber:
A mild chamber is served by an oxygen concentrator, which feeds oxygen-enriched air to the user through a mask while the chamber itself is pressurised by a compressor. At 0.5 bar the pressure inside the chamber is equivalent to about five metres of water depth. From a building point of view the two pieces of plant are what matter: the concentrator and the compressor both need power, ventilation, acoustic separation and service access, and neither belongs inside the room it is serving. This advanced approach transcends traditional therapies, making the Wellness Chamber a beacon of innovation and well-being in the realm of hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
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What a hyperbaric suite actually involves
Buying a chamber is the easy half. The half that decides whether the suite works is the room: what carries the chamber, where the oxygen plant lives, how the air is moved, how the noise is kept out and how the space is finished. That is the part we do. The chamber comes from a specialist manufacturer; the suite comes from us.
Chamber types and what each one demands of the room
| Format | Pressure | Capacity | Oxygen source | What the room has to provide |
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| Soft-shell, mild HBOT | 1.3–1.5 ATA | 1 person | Concentrator | A compact wellness room, a stable single-phase supply, ventilation and somewhere quiet for the concentrator |
| Hard-shell monoplace | 2.0–3.0 ATA | 1 person | Concentrator or oxygen supply | A dedicated engineered room, load-checked floor, service clearance, separated oxygen storage, and a licence where the use is clinical |
| Hard-shell multiplace | 2.0–3.0 ATA | 2–12 people | Bulk medical oxygen | A large dedicated room, engineered access route, a fire-rated plant space, full ventilation and climate control, and a licence for clinical use |
The pressure figure is not a marketing detail. It changes the oxygen handling, the permitting and whether clinical oversight is required. The honest version of that argument — what the evidence supports and what it does not — is set out in full in our guide to hyperbaric oxygen chambers in Dubai.
A delivered example — longevity clinic, Jumeirah, Dubai
In September 2025 the founder of a longevity clinic in Jumeirah came to us with a 24 m² shell, a single-phase supply and a brand built on discretion, and a problem no ordinary fit-out contractor solves: where a 1,400 kg hard-shell multi-user chamber goes, how the oxygen is stored safely, and how the room stops looking like a hospital. Ten weeks later we handed over a finished suite: the chamber placed and served, the oxygen plant concealed in a fire-rated adjacent room, acoustic and thermal isolation, and a relaxation lounge finished to the clinic’s own aesthetic. The clinic runs the chamber alongside its infrared and cold-therapy services as a single circuit.
The client’s name is withheld by agreement. The district, the facility type, the floor area, the chamber weight, the month and the programme are given as recorded.
Designing the suite into a longevity circuit
Almost nobody installs a chamber alone. It arrives as part of a circuit, and the circuit is what should be drawn first — heat, cold, pressure and rest, with the plant for all of them planned together rather than four times over. Our infrared cabins, cold plunge pools and salt rooms are routinely specified in the same scheme. On the sequencing side, our guides to pairing heat with cold and to how a thermal suite is planned cover how these rooms are ordered so guests move through them instead of doubling back.
Certification — what is ours and what is the manufacturer’s
Our own certification is TS EN ISO 9001:2015 quality management, covering sauna and spa product manufacturing and after-sales service. Certification of a hyperbaric chamber belongs to the chamber manufacturer and travels with the unit: pressure-vessel and device certification, with the documents that go to the authority. We check that documentation against the intended use before the room is designed around it, because a chamber that cannot be licensed for the intended service turns a finished suite into a storage room.
Frequently asked questions
Does Sauna Dekor manufacture hyperbaric chambers?
No. We design, engineer and build the suite the chamber sits in, and we integrate it with the rest of the wellness circuit — sauna, infrared, cold plunge, treatment and rest. The chamber itself comes from a specialist manufacturer, selected by the client or their clinical partner. We coordinate with that manufacturer’s data and commissioning team.
What is the difference between mHBOT and medical HBOT?
Pressure and oversight. Mild hyperbaric therapy, mHBOT, runs at roughly 1.3 to 1.5 ATA — about 0.3 to 0.5 bar above atmospheric — usually with an oxygen concentrator, and is positioned as a wellness amenity. Medical HBOT runs at 2.0 to 3.0 ATA with high-concentration oxygen under clinical supervision and, for clinical use in Dubai, requires a Dubai Health Authority licence. The two need different rooms, different oxygen handling and different permits.
What does a hyperbaric room need that an ordinary treatment room does not?
Four things engineered together: a floor that carries the chamber’s point load and an access route that gets it there; a separated, ventilated and fire-rated space for the oxygen plant; controlled ventilation and cooling for the room itself; and a coordinated electrical supply with isolation and emergency stop. Acoustic isolation is the fifth item clients forget — concentrators and compressors are audible.
How much space does a hyperbaric suite take?
A soft-shell single-user chamber fits inside a compact wellness room. A hard-shell monoplace chamber needs a dedicated engineered room with service clearance on the technical side. A multi-user hard-shell chamber needs a large dedicated room plus a separate plant space. We have delivered a complete suite — multi-user chamber, concealed oxygen plant in a fire-rated adjacent room, acoustic and thermal isolation and a relaxation lounge — inside a 24 m² shell in Jumeirah, Dubai, ten weeks from brief to handover.
Can a hyperbaric suite be combined with a sauna and cold plunge?
Yes, and it usually should be. Clinics and villa owners rarely buy a chamber on its own; they buy a longevity circuit in which the chamber sits alongside infrared, sauna, cold-water and rest positions. Planning the circuit as one scheme is what keeps the plant, drainage and acoustic separation coherent instead of each room fighting the one next to it.
What certification does the equipment carry?
Our own certification is TS EN ISO 9001:2015 quality management, covering sauna and spa product manufacturing and after-sales service. Certification of a hyperbaric chamber is the chamber manufacturer’s — pressure-vessel and device certification comes with the unit and its documentation, and it should be checked against the intended use and against the local authority’s requirements before the room is designed around it.
